A brief talk on the “Fat Acceptence Movement”:
Now listen, before I begin, I would like to start off by saying that I don’t hate fat people as a whole. I’d like to use a quote from something I read once: “It’s in the same way I hate cancer. The people who have been diagnosed with cancer, I don’t hate them. The people who find ways to stop it, I don’t hate them. I hate the issue itself.” I myself have had a few fat friends in my time, and all of them make a joke out of being fat; they accepted there was an issue and decided to do something about it. They didn’t get angry when I called them fat, because they knew they were, and that their diet was unhealthy. But this is about the women (and men, but not so much) that have created the otherworldy and vindictive “Fat Acceptance Movement”(FAM).
Obesity is a problem. It can have horrific and painful side effects, such as horrendous back pains, shortness of breath, clogged arteries that could possibly lead to heart failure and occasionally even cancer. Doesn’t sound good, does it? If any other lifestyle choice had these effects, such as smoking, for example, there would be a major uproar about it. You have to be over 18 to buy cigarettes so you can be mature enough to make the decision to tar your lungs up. And there’s also plenty of promotional art, adverts etc to sway you from doing that to your body. But the FAM have condemned such things when it comes to unhealthy life decisions; saying that it’s “Ok to be obese” and that you “shouldn’t listen to doctors as they’re ‘fatphobic’. I’ll cover the whole “fatphobia” nonsense later, but for now, I’d like to point one thing out: Doctors are trained medical professionals that have studied this topic for many years. I have yet to see any supporting evidence that proves the ludicrous claims that “some people are born fat”, “some people cannot medically lose weight” and “I am still fat despite eating healthily and exercising enough.” Despite this, I have witnessed many charts, graphs, tables etc showing the direct correlation between an unhealthy lifestyle and getting a BMI much higher than what’s good for you. Stop promoting the FAM, because as such you’re promoting the diseases that come along with being overweight. Granted, I can see where they’re coming from when they preach about being happy with yourself, but you should still realize it is a very bad thing to be obese and could lead to medical issues and set out to become healthier. Also, by saying that is is “Ok to be obese”, you’re telling younger, more impressionable children that it’s ok to have the health complications mentioned prior, as it’s impossible to not have those issues when fattening up.
Secondly, the whole “fatphobia” thing is utter nonsense. You see, the reason racial inequality, misogyny, and ethnicity-culling were/are such big deal is that ethnicity, gender, and race are all things that can not/weren’t able to be changed. This is due to the fact that gender transitioning is a fairly new practice, and ethnicity and race are dependant on your bloodline and genetics. Therefore, when black people were undergoing segregation, they could do nothing about it as they couldn’t change their roots. Fatness, however, is due to environmental factors, rather than genetics. And although many people say they were “born obese”, that’s simply not true as there is no other type of animal in the known universe that is “born fat”. And it’s not due to evolution making babies obese now, as evolution is there to make a species more strong and agile, not to slow down their hunting speed. So, because of this, it is not “fatphobia” as there is something that cannot be changed. It would be classed under nothing more than high school bullying’ if that. You see, most of the comments seen as “fatphobic” are mainly about how it is quite definitely possible for you to become thin again, if you just do the right amount of exercise needed to slim you down as prescribed by a doctor, as well as what diet your doctor thinks you should be on. (By the way, eating a lot of healthy food is basically the same as eating a medium quantity of unhealthy food due to the excess sugar, carb, protein etc intake. Ever heard the phrase “too much of a good thing has ill effects?”) Additionally, if you think somebody stating the obvious that you are fat is offensive, then you most definitely are not “loving yourself”, as that is definitely the talk of someone very weak and fragile.
And last but not least, airplane seats, bus seats, subway seats and the like are all designed to fit the average human person of their respective countries. Therefore, if you cannot fit in one of these seats alone, the fault is not with the company how designed the seats, they’re just trying to accommodate for as many people as possible with the limited amount of space provided. The blame is entirely on you, as you have made that decision to avoid a healthy lifestyle and thus should not have the audacity to complain to other people who have had little to no part to play in your life. Linking back to my previous paragraph, it is not “fatphobic” if the seats at the doctor’s office cannot contain your whole self, but rather it is you that have gone out of their way to becoming so obese that you have difficulty fitting in a rather large space.
